“Beautiful, just beautiful!” Recently my class performed a play called Hanging onto the Bottom of the World. It is a performance about Australian history with a TWIST. This play is a comedy. It fits most of Australia’s history into a funny forty five minute play.
In this play the main roles were two commentators at the start and they kept on saying each bride and bridesmaids are beautiful every single minute then they had a swap of characters and then the new actors were obsessed with facial hair. The whole audience was bent over in laughter. It was amazing.
My character was a racist offical who thought that the white race was better than anyone else especially the non white races. Playing that character was a struggle since I didn’t believe in what that character believed in but I pretended I was talking about something else and I tried to forget I was saying something rude. So in the end I went on the stage pretending I was saying something I believed in when deep down I hated what I was saying. My character was very rude and always put himself first, he was self-absorbed and not very kind.
Shout out to Ellie she was a tea lady and I couldn’t even see a tiny aspect of herself. She was so deep in her character it was amazing. I feel like she gave everyone courage to step out of there shell and become someone else. Ellie was a good influence and the whole audience loved her.
This play included lots of fun music, such as when the prospector found gold the song Gold by Spandau Ballet. Then whenever the queen came in they played Dancing Queen. The audience loved it, we loved it, and it made the show better.
My favourite highlight of the night was at the end when we gathered together to sing the song Eye of the Needle, it was very unexpected but the audience started clapping the beat to the song and were all taking videos of us it was an amazing way to end a performance.
Have you ever performed a play? What was it about?
